Howard Chan's wiki page

Biography

Basic information

Name: Howard Chan

Location: Hong Kong SAR, China

Age: 14

Launchpad profile: https://launchpad.net/~smartboyhw

IRC: smartboyhw on irc.freenode.net

Email: (ask me on IRC)

About me

Hi everyone. I am Howard Chan from Hong Kong, a dedicated Ubuntu enthusiastic.

I actually was a Windows user till March 2012, when I decided that using Windows 8 won't do any good. Hence I allowed myself into the embrace of the Ubuntu community.

Professionally (not quite so)

I'm a Secondary 3 student, so don't expect too technical items from me. I do know a bit of Java (from Android development), C++, C and Visual Basic.

Internet Relay Chat

My registered IRC nickname is smartboyhw. I usually use IRC as my medium of commmunication with community members. I am usually present in the following channels:

#ubuntuforums

#ubuntu-beginners

#ubuntu-accomplishments

#ubuntu-meeting

#ubuntu-quality

#ubuntustudio

#ubuntustudio-devel

#kubuntu-devel

#xubuntu-devel

#ubuntu-release

Please feel free to say hello.

QA Team

As a student I do want to help the Ubuntu community, so on June 2012 I joined the Ubuntu Community Quality Assurance Team, just before Ubuntu 12.04.1 was released. It was my perfect team since it doesn't require any programming and can still help Ubuntu in a very solid way. Thanks to Nicholas Skaggs (balloons), Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Janne Jokitalo (astraljava), I got involved in it quite quickly.

My participation was quickly acknowledged when I joined the Ubuntu Testcase Admins Team in August 2012. I had written a ISO testcase for Ubuntu Studio, and also will be writing a testcase for the Transmission BitTorrent client.

I have held a session about the QA Team in Ubuntu Open Week and will(probably would) also be holding a classroom session about ISO tests (probably around mid Feb 2013)

Ubuntu Studio

I joined the Ubuntu Studio team in August 2012, since I got interested in multimedia production (Note: Although Ubuntu Studio mainly focuses on audio more, I do video). I mainly helped in the testing effort, testing the amd64 ISOs which are lack of testers. I also helped in developing documentation. I am now a member of the PR team (mainly responsible for testing annoucements), and also working on a testing documentation for Ubuntu Studio.

Ubuntu Accomplishments

I also helped in Ubuntu Accomplishments team, where I have written two testcases ("Testcase Admins" and "First bug fixed"). I also helped fix some small bugs. I am now working on adding keywords to accomplishments.

Xfce translations

One of my long-term goals is to introduce Chinese (Hong Kong) translations to F/OSS software. Henceforth, I created the Xfce Chinese (Hong Kong) translation team in Xfce Transifex. I will be working to put translations into Xfce in this year (2013).

Objectives for 2013-2014

Help to test ISOs and writing test cases.

Hopefully I can also help translating Ubuntu.

Continue to contribute to Ubuntu Studio in testing.

Introduce Chinese (Hong Kong) translations to software.

Help in Ubuntu Accomplishments.

Testimonials

For Ubuntu membership applications:

smartboyhw got the right answer more quickly than I did. You should expect high quality work from this person! kanliot

smartboyhw is always interested in trying something new, and tries to help where he can. Seems to have picked up quite a few things about Ubuntu development. Selfgoing. Friendly communicator, and has good potential for software development and administration. - zequence

Outgoing and enthusiastic, Smartboyhw has been exceedingly helpful from the first day with Ubuntu Studio. While focusing mainly on testing, he has been always willing to help in whatever manner available. I expect continued and increasing value to Ubuntu from him, including for development. ScottLavender

smartboyhw has been a great addition to the QA/Testing team. He is active in all aspects of it and is shortly due to hold a classroom session on testing ISO's. I can heart-fully recommend him for Ubuntu membership and ask that you look favorably upon his application. phillw 14:02 26th Jan 2013

I had the pleasure to meet smartboyhw while working on Ubuntu Accomplishments. He keeps providing us with valuable feedback, helps us fix bugs, and contributes some code. The quality of his work is great, and I suspect it may be partially caused by his never-ending enthusiasm for contributing to Ubuntu. smartboyhw is one of those contributors who are certain to bring great values to Ubuntu, and therefore I can recommend him for Ubuntu membership. RafalCieslak

Smartboyhw stumbled into IRC one morning and his ethusiam for ubuntu, testing, and open source hasn't wavered since! As time has passed he's gotten invovled in many different aspects of testing and from there branching out into other parts of ubuntu. He's gained many skills along the way, and it's been a pleasure watching him become a part of the community. I would encourage you to make his inclusion official and look favorably upon his application for membership. balloons